Billings Public Library on the Inside!

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Let's Explore the Caldecott Award

The Caldecott Medal is given to one book every year that has "the most distinguished" artwork. This artwork is special and has something different about it. Let's take a look at some past winners and talk about different types of art and why this artwork makes the story even better!

Very Merry Spirit Day

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Rework, Reuse, Remix

Common Sense Media 2012

Digital World

Examples of Public Domain Works:

Project Guttenberg- a collection of free e-books

The Commons-archive of photos


Case Studies of Fair Use:

Scary Mary

Discussion Board for "Scary Mary"

DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop 2012

Discussion Board for DJ Earworm

4th Grade: Reference Tour

 In preparation for up coming inquiry projects, 4th grade is touring different reference materials so they will be able to determine what resources they need to answer their questions.  This week, we explored dictionaries.  We read a biography about Noah Webster and used the interactive projector to practice some dictionary skills.  Students, then tested their knowledge with their assignment and received immediate feedback by scanning QR codes to check their work.